Bug#770016: Clarify network access for building packages in main
On Sun, Nov 23, 2014 at 04:47:00PM -0200, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote:
> On Sun, 23 Nov 2014, Bill Allombert wrote:
> > --- a/policy.sgml
> > +++ b/policy.sgml
> > @@ -1928,12 +1928,16 @@ zope.
> > impossible to auto-compile that package and also makes it hard
> > for other people to reproduce the same binary package, all
> > required targets must be non-interactive. It also follows that
> > any target that these targets depend on must also be
> > non-interactive.
> > </p>
> > + <p>
> > + For packages in the main archive, no required targets
> > + may attempt network access.
> > + </p>
> >
> > <p>
> > The targets are as follows:
> > <taglist>
> > <tag><tt>build</tt> (required)</tag>
> > <item>
>
> This is something we want for multiple reasons, but have we already fixed
> all instances of, e.g., validating sgml/xml parsers trying to fetch DTDs or
> schemas during documentation build ? Or other network access attempts that
> don't fail a build (and helpfully don't modify it either)?
Lucas, can you confirm that the main archive ca be rebuild without external
network access ?
> And it is is not just for main, I don't think contrib is supposed to hit the
> network during *build*, either.
I have no idea abut contrib.
Cheers,
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Bill. <ballombe@debian.org>
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